At professional-counselling.com I am dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
I recognise that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information I receive and collect when you use professional-counselling.com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Professional-counselling.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all my operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on my website.
About cookies
Cookies and web beacons are small chunks of data created by a web server.
They arrive via your web browser (ex. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc) and are stored on your computer.
Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. They prevent you from having to re-enter your information on a certain website from scratch each time you visit that site.
I use cookies on professional-counselling.com to help me identify and track visitors, their use of my website, and their website access preferences.
Google Analytics cookies
Professional-counselling.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. I share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Professional-counselling.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems.
A cookie only gives me the data you choose to share with me. NO personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies.
I use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to my website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow me to update the site and improve your usage of it.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website (see further down).
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Affiliate products and services
I receive an affiliate commission for some of the [products/services] sold on professional-counselling.com – at no extra cost to you.
The affiliate platforms I use are Online-therapy.com, Relationshiphero.com and HypnosisDownloads.com.
By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform’s use of cookies, as outlined in the documents linked here:
Refusing cookies – you have a choice
Examples of browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
Most browsers allow you to choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings. Browsers mentioned above allow you:
a) to accept all cookies
b) to notify you when a cookie is issued
c) to not receive cookies at any time
Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of my site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse professional-counselling.com’s cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
The following sites help you to understand and manage your settings:
- NAI – opt out of interest-based advertising
- EU Your Online Choices
Personally identifiable information
Professional-counselling.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to run and operate this site
- to display content on the site correctly
- to improve customer service
- to help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently
- to personalize your user experience
- to understand how users as a group use the services and resources provided on this site
- to improve this site
- to improve my products and services
- to run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature
- to send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you
- to send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails (email courses)
- to respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests
Professional-counselling.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit my site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources I make available on my site.
- Specifically, if you subscribe to my newsletter, I will require your email address.
- If you complete a form, I will require your name and your email address and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
- If you purchase a product or service from us, I will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.
Professional-counselling.com lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms.
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit my site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my site. I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
I also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. I do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Professional-counselling.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.
Non-personally identifiable information
I may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with my site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to my site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. I operate my site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. I do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of information
If I sell my site: professional-counselling.com, the information I have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in my site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through my website of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.
Data storage
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on my host’s servers. That host is:
Lyrical Host
The Ingenuity Centre
Triumph Road
Nottingham
UK
NG7 2TU
Updates and effective date
Professional-counselling.com reserves the right to make changes to this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Your agreement
If you do not agree to professional-counselling.com’s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.